AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15519, 29 January 1914, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WOMAN DONE. TO DEATH. gilllllp ? ~ t r u i? ARREST OF HER HUSBAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright. (Beceived January 28,' 7.10 p.m.) • Syd.vf.t, January 28. A- tragedy if* irom^W,averlev. A boy named Mullan cn artcring his parents' room yesterday. discovered ids "-mother in •'••■• |||l|g bed with her head frightfully, tattered, and the nose, and afl ear cut off. She was still'■ ■■ : '- alive, bat died later in the hospital: The father, James Mullan, .was missing. Some ; hocrs later; .the proprietor o? . . I Wylie's baths at Cogee s&w ilullan, fully 'clothed, jump off the rocks into 1 the sea. The proprietor plunged in to * the rescue. j Muffijn was raving 'dual" killfiig his wife; * " Afters *ac 'desperate- struggle, lasting. 20 minutes, the proprietor managed to iescue Mullan. who' was taken--to the -police sta-'' *<- tion. He lias now recovered. It, transpires thaV ; MuHaftWd; his wife^^^ children lived quite: happily, Mullan, V;i - however, suffered from "heart trouble .and ifl was under medical treatment' 'It is pre : sumed that in a fit of madness he attacked his sleeping wife. -' -- - . ■ s Mullah" was remanded this morning on jV' "-'i a charge; oi murdering his wife. I Though--the. family was sleeping in {he room adjoining the scene-'t 5-~ the- tragedy no oaa-1 Heard a sound. 'BfS^Sl^ I **«, *3»rr* ?lEBCE GALE AT SYDNEY. ; (Received January 28, 9.45 p.m.). • • .Sydxey, January 28. Manip buildings wepe unroofed and damaged in"jthlr C%-iagdJsuturfe" to-day by ..sVVf' *" "- fierce westerly gale, which lasted' several tours "SometoJ" the squalls 'had 'a "' ' veloeitjf/bf- 75'°-mite; an hour. /■" Severalv-;-":'■<* vessels were ;blow.';fr6m their. mooiUftgs,; but 'escaped with slight damage: -'" "", » 'I' ~ ~ - ; • :HBB* ,AT - |1 i j; (Heeeived January 28;. 8.10 -- Brisbane/' 'January 28.- -- • jFuStbeE details shears that the girl Denier;'; ?reporter yesterday .to " have . been- burned to deathLin the- , fire-at-the" Salvatiotr Amy 'H'otiie at Jfaringo, . a ; suburb of. Brisbane,- fseapcd. sa.foly. -One v% ' woman had her arm broken. and was iTc s^ badly injured" about- the face, while heroically" assisting in the. wsrk •of rescue., • * : TXe the who was re-1| % x mandediifc-day on a. charge .of the murder, of, : tfee s|<| m fc u who perished in the flames,-' - ; i proyiesi'io be Nightingale, ... She, protested. ,* .? her|"irifwcence, and called the' arresting] % | | constable a liar for saying--that she. fold ' him something. She,'declared that she --||| , escaped'" the-fife-by-gliding down the rails,; "J

DEMANDS ,_BY ENGINEERS. " " " J "* (Received January. 28, 6 p.m.) - ... >• ■.-. • V*. '• Meukhhote-, January 28; J-X '-■><, n" '» " ■- A, confere'tice ' oftengHieers; @|3ft||pß shipwrights,' 'and udiiworkerrMias docidM ■ip refuse to -work Mel- Igj if gig bourne . Harbour Tnreti"uir£if/iheic claims »for trades union recognised. { '~ ' ■ ■ - ~ 5 V-l S TASMANIA# 'PRINTERS. ; i •* M . 4 - t,'*-"r^ s v, * (Received Jahuary'- SS. 6 p.m.) ' r jLwkcfsiftX", January 28. iJi The printers r ,'sti\kc 3 here has'.come to ao t -- r end on te|rijis mutually •arrahged.- Y .''.' j -J•; • »'- . \ < *; •-? <v> • %*■. J*. 'LIGHT OV£K"CffEDNE7. 4 "f A »■ I'.. jy _ l | SinxWi January 28. c * \ ' Hawker; 'Wte hereof' tha :feiJy Mail- |jj§ flight round Brjtapi on a. iiydro-arroplatie, and now .on' a.:visit;.to his;-"native eountry, . flew: over ';tlld'city'lo-<lav on."-a Sopwith biplane. "He, reaciifid analtitude 5000 ft-, and attuned a "Speed •of -SO isil&i-an hour. - - I